There are no statues or rocks or chairs. But there are microscopic objects arranged statuewise and rockwise and chairwise. Moreover, there are—in addition to microscopic objects arranged humanwise—composite human organisms.
Keywords: artifacts, composition, free will, human organisms, identity, mental causation, Trenton Merricks, metaphysics, objects, ontology, parts, personal identity, persons, philosophy of mind
| Print publication date: 2001 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199245369 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 | DOI:10.1093/0199245363.001.0001 |